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公开(公告)号:US12039998B1
公开(公告)日:2024-07-16
申请号:US17665129
申请日:2022-02-04
Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
Inventor: Chieh-Chi Kao , Qingming Tang , Ming Sun , Viktor Rozgic , Spyridon Matsoukas , Chao Wang
Abstract: An acoustic event detection system may employ self-supervised federated learning to update encoder and/or classifier machine learning models. In an example operation, an encoder may be pre-trained to extract audio feature data from an audio signal. A decoder may be pre-trained to predict a subsequent portion of audio data (e.g., a subsequent frame of audio data represented by log filterbank energies). The encoder and decoder may be trained using self-supervised learning to improve the decoder's predictions and, by extension, the quality of the audio feature data generated by the encoder. The system may apply federated learning to share encoder updates across user devices. The system may fine-tune the classifier to improve inferences based on the improved audio feature data. The system may distribute classifier updates to the user device(s) to update the on-device classifier.
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公开(公告)号:US11961514B1
公开(公告)日:2024-04-16
申请号:US17547610
申请日:2021-12-10
Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
Inventor: Chia-Jung Chang , Qingming Tang , Ming Sun , Chao Wang
CPC classification number: G10L15/16
Abstract: An acoustic event detection system may employ one or more recurrent neural networks (RNNs) to extract features from audio data, and use the extracted features to determine the presence of an acoustic event. The system may use self-attention to emphasize features extracted from portions of audio data that may include features more useful for detecting acoustic events. The system may perform self-attention in an iterative manner to reduce the amount of memory used to store hidden states of the RNN while processing successive portions of the audio data. The system may process the portions of the audio data using the RNN to generate a hidden state for each portion. The system may calculate an interim embedding for each hidden state. An interim embedding calculated for the last hidden state may be normalized to determine a final embedding representing features extracted from the input data by the RNN.
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公开(公告)号:US20230410833A1
公开(公告)日:2023-12-21
申请号:US18131531
申请日:2023-04-06
Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
Inventor: Shiva Kumar Sundaram , Chao Wang , Shiv Naga Prasad Vitaladevuni , Spyridon Matsoukas , Arindam Mandal
CPC classification number: G10L25/30 , G10L25/51 , G10L15/02 , G10L15/16 , G10L15/22 , G10L15/30 , G10L25/78 , G10L2015/088
Abstract: A speech-capture device can capture audio data during wakeword monitoring and use the audio data to determine if a user is present nearby the device, even if no wakeword is spoken. Audio such as speech, human originating sounds (e.g., coughing, sneezing), or other human related noises (e.g., footsteps, doors closing) can be used to detect audio. Audio frames are individually scored as to whether a human presence is detected in the particular audio frames. The scores are then smoothed relative to nearby frames to create a decision for a particular frame. Presence information can then be sent according to a periodic schedule to a remote device to create a presence “heartbeat” that regularly identifies whether a user is detected proximate to a speech-capture device.
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公开(公告)号:US20230186939A1
公开(公告)日:2023-06-15
申请号:US17547644
申请日:2021-12-10
Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
Inventor: Qingming Tang , Chieh-Chi Kao , Qin Zhang , Ming Sun , Chao Wang , Sumit Garg , Rong Chen , James Garnet Droppo , Chia-Jung Chang
Abstract: A system may include a first acoustic event detection (AED) component configured to detect a predetermined set of acoustic events, and include a second AED component configured to detect custom acoustic events that a user configures a device to detect. The first and second AED components are configured to perform task-specific processing, and may receive as input the same acoustic feature data corresponding to audio data that potentially represents occurrence of one or more events. Based on processing by the first and second AED components, a device may output data indicating that one or more acoustic events occurred, where the acoustic events may be a predetermined acoustic event and/or a custom acoustic event.
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公开(公告)号:US11670299B2
公开(公告)日:2023-06-06
申请号:US17321999
申请日:2021-05-17
Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
Inventor: Ming Sun , Thibaud Senechai , Yixin Gao , Anish N. Shah , Spyridon Matsoukas , Chao Wang , Shiv Naga Prasad Vitaladevuni
Abstract: A system processes audio data to detect when it includes a representation of a wakeword or of an acoustic event. The system may receive or determine acoustic features for the audio data, such as log-filterbank energy (LFBE). The acoustic features may be used by a first, wakeword-detection model to detect the wakeword; the output of this model may be further processed using a softmax function, to smooth it, and to detect spikes. The same acoustic features may be also be used by a second, acoustic-event-detection model to detect the acoustic event; the output of this model may be further processed using a sigmoid function and a classifier. Another model may be used to extract additional features from the LFBE data; these additional features may be used by the other models.
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公开(公告)号:US11308939B1
公开(公告)日:2022-04-19
申请号:US16140737
申请日:2018-09-25
Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
Inventor: Yixin Gao , Ming Sun , Varun Nagaraja , Gengshen Fu , Chao Wang , Shiv Naga Prasad Vitaladevuni
Abstract: A system and method performs wakeword detection and automatic speech recognition using the same acoustic model. A mapping engine maps phones/senones output by the acoustic model to phones/senones corresponding to the wakeword. A hidden Markov model (HMM) may determine that the wakeword is present in audio data; the HMM may have multiple paths for multiple wakewords or may have multiple models. Once the wakeword is detected, ASR is performed using the acoustic model.
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公开(公告)号:US20210358497A1
公开(公告)日:2021-11-18
申请号:US17321999
申请日:2021-05-17
Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
Inventor: Ming Sun , Thibaud Senechal , Yixin Gao , Anish N. Shah , Spyridon Matsoukas , Chao Wang , Shiv Naga Prasad Vitaladevuni
Abstract: A system processes audio data to detect when it includes a representation of a wakeword or of an acoustic event. The system may receive or determine acoustic features for the audio data, such as log-filterbank energy (LFBE). The acoustic features may be used by a first, wakeword-detection model to detect the wakeword; the output of this model may be further processed using a softmax function, to smooth it, and to detect spikes. The same acoustic features may be also be used by a second, acoustic-event-detection model to detect the acoustic event; the output of this model may be further processed using a sigmoid function and a classifier. Another model may be used to extract additional features from the LFBE data; these additional features may be used by the other models.
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公开(公告)号:US11069352B1
公开(公告)日:2021-07-20
申请号:US16278440
申请日:2019-02-18
Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
Inventor: Qingming Tang , Ming Sun , Chieh-Chi Kao , Chao Wang , Viktor Rozgic
Abstract: Described herein is a system for media presence detection in audio. The system analyzes audio data to recognize whether a given audio segment contains sounds from a media source as a way of differentiating recorded media source sounds from other live sounds. In exemplary embodiments, the system includes a hierarchical model architecture for processing audio data segments, where individual audio data segments are processed by a trained machine learning model operating locally, and another trained machine learning model provides historical and contextual information to determine a score indicating the likelihood that the audio data segment contains sounds from a media source.
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公开(公告)号:US12068001B2
公开(公告)日:2024-08-20
申请号:US18243800
申请日:2023-09-08
Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
Inventor: Harshavardhan Sundar , Sheetal Laad , Jialiang Bao , Ming Sun , Chao Wang , Chungnam Chan , Cengiz Erbas , Mathias Jourdain , Nipul Bharani , Aaron David Wirshba
CPC classification number: G10L25/51 , G10L15/063 , G10L15/22 , G10L25/78 , G10L2015/0635
Abstract: Techniques for detecting certain acoustic events from audio data are described. A system may perform event aggregation for certain types of events before sending an output to a device representing the event is detected. The system may bypass the event aggregation process for certain types of events that the system may detect with a high level of confidence. In such cases, the system may send an output to the device when the event is detected. The system may be used to detect acoustic events representing presence of a person or other harmful circumstances (such as, fire, smoke, etc.) in a home, an office, a store, or other types of indoor settings.
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公开(公告)号:US11869535B1
公开(公告)日:2024-01-09
申请号:US16711883
申请日:2019-12-12
Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
Inventor: Mohammad Taha Bahadori , Viktor Rozgic , Alexander Jonathan Pinkus , Chao Wang , David Heckerman
CPC classification number: G10L25/63 , G06N3/044 , G06N3/08 , G10L15/063 , G10L15/16 , G10L15/1815 , G10L15/22 , G10L2015/223
Abstract: Described is a system and method that determines character sequences from speech, without determining the words of the speech, and processes the character sequences to determine sentiment data indicative of emotional state of a user that output the speech. The emotional state may then be presented or provided as an output to the user.
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